{"product_id":"life-and-work-tim-parks-9780300215366","title":"Life and Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations Between Them","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this brilliant collection, a renowned critic vividly depicts the dynamic relationships between authors, their work, and their readers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Acclaimed novelist and critic Tim Parks has long been fascinated by the complicated relationship between an author's life and work. Dissatisfied with the dominant modes of reading he encountered, he began exploring the underlying values and patterns that guide authors in both their writing and their lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a series of provocative, incisive, and unflinching essays written over the past decade and collected for the first time here, he reveals how style and content in a novel reflect a whole pattern of communication and positioning in the author's ordinary and daily behavior. We see how life and work are deeply enmeshed in the work of writers as diverse as Charles Dickens, Feodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, Philip Roth, Julian Barnes, Peter Stamm, and Geoff Dyer, among others. Parks further shows us how readers' reactions to these writers and their works are inevitably connected to these communicative patterns, establishing a relationship that goes far beyond aesthetic appreciation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This original and daring collection takes us into the psychology of some of our greatest writers and challenges us to see with more clarity how our lives become entangled with theirs through our reading of their novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Parks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300215363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300215366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/11\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2016 pg. 88","brand":"Tim Parks","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44057816105215,"sku":"9780300215366","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b3cdd8cb-86c3-4b1b-8f91-bcff20692bef.jpg?v=1685049032","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/life-and-work-tim-parks-9780300215366","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}